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Re: UN Officials Demand Prosecutions for US Torture

Originally Posted by Conservative

Yet you never answer the question posed, what actions would you support to get information out of someone who knew the exact location and timing for an explosive device that would like members of your family? You give these animals way too much credit as if they are human. What country do they represent? When did they sign the Geneva Convention? What kind of person chops off the head of another, flies planes into buildings, blows themselves up in crowded restaurants? You want us to ask them kindly over coffee what their next plan is?

You don't get it sir. I watched maybe 3 Jack Bauer episodes and found it insulted my intelligence. Those who live in his hypothetical world are in a make-believe world. I'll pass, thanks just the same.

Re: UN Officials Demand Prosecutions for US Torture

Originally Posted by Henry David

You don't get it sir. I watched maybe 3 Jack Bauer episodes and found it insulted my intelligence. Those who live in his hypothetical world are in a make-believe world. I'll pass, thanks just the same.

Right, it wasn't hypothetical that terrorists flew planes into the WTC. What effort would you have done to prevent that? I suggest you learn to think instead of feeling all the time.

Re: UN Officials Demand Prosecutions for US Torture

Originally Posted by Boo Radley

The WH legal consul opinion on the matter is not a rebuttal to what I said. It was a legal opinion given to help the president make a poor decision. It is not a prosecutor's opinion, or a court ruling. So, I repeat, their unwillingness to prosecute isn't evidence he didn't break the law.

Yes it is rebuttal that is on point.
There were no charges.
"An unwillingness" is nothing but your spin.
There were no charges and there will be no charges.

Originally Posted by Boo Radley

And yes they did violate the law. As discussed earlier, waterboarding and stress positions have longer lasting harm than physical abuse.
So it meets the very parts you underlined. what was done to these people was worse than beatings. It will be with them longer.

Wrong on all counts.

Originally Posted by Boo Radley

And remember, one who died, the innocent taxi driver, died in a stress position, from being in that position.

Wrong again.
He died because folks who were not authorized (as in acting on there own) severely battered his body and was left untreated.
He did not die because of being in that stress position as you want to lamely assert.

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But his legs, which had been pummeled by guards for several days, could no longer bend.

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A subsequent autopsy revealed that his legs had been "pulpified," and that even if Dilawar had survived, it would have been necessary to amputate his legs.[7]

Re: UN Officials Demand Prosecutions for US Torture

Right, it wasn't hypothetical that terrorists flew planes into the WTC. What effort would you have done to prevent that? I suggest you learn to think instead of feeling all the time.

Heck, I think so much and feel so little that when I watched the news helicopters flying over Shanksville PA on that fateful day, I had the same questions the news guy talking had--where was the wrecked airliner? It wasn't there, and 13 years later we know what actually happened there.

Point is, there actually were no mythical hijackers that you refer to. Yes, airplanes DID fly into those towers, but they were drone aircraft controlled by wicked men working behind the scenes in what might best be described as the military industrial complex.

We were all deceived that day, and only about half of us now recognize that.

I would suggest you need to study a bit more and perhaps sharpen your analytical thinking skills. Things are not always as they appear.

Re: UN Officials Demand Prosecutions for US Torture

Originally Posted by Henry David

Heck, I think so much and feel so little that when I watched the news helicopters flying over Shanksville PA on that fateful day, I had the same questions the news guy talking had--where was the wrecked airliner? It wasn't there, and 13 years later we know what actually happened there.

Point is, there actually were no mythical hijackers that you refer to. Yes, airplanes DID fly into those towers, but they were drone aircraft controlled by wicked men working behind the scenes in what might best be described as the military industrial complex.

We were all deceived that day, and only about half of us now recognize that.

I would suggest you need to study a bit more and perhaps sharpen your analytical thinking skills. Things are not always as they appear.